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! FENCE STRAND 0P SCRAP METAL:

No. 268,264. Patented Nov. 28, 1882.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN G. MILLIGAN, OF BROOKLYN, ASSIGNOR TO THE LALANOE & GROS- JEANMANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

FENCE-STRAND OF SCRAFZ METAL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 268,264, dated November28, 1882.

Application filed July 26, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: I

Be it known that I, JOHN G. MILLIGAN, a citizen of the United States,and a resident of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of NewYork, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Fence-Strands ofScrap Metal, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to utilize the waste scraps resulting fromcutting or stamping spoon-blanks from rectangular sheets of metal, as iscommon in the arts. Such scraps have heretofore been a source of expenseand annoyance to manufacturers, there being no profitable known way ofgetting rid of them. I attain this object by cutting the waste scrapsinto symmetrical sections and forming them into a chain.

The subject-matter claimed is hereinafter specifically designated.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 shows a portion of a sheet ofmetal as it appears after cutting out the spoon-blank. Figs. 2, 3, 4,and 6 show various forms of chain made by interlocking the sections outtherefrom. Fig. 5 is a transverse section of the cable shown in Fig. 4in one stage of its formation.

The cutting of the spoon-blanks B from the sheet A leaves a skeleton ofthe form shown in Fig. 1, which may be considered as composed ofsymmetrical sections a b c of difiering shapes, on being triangular inshape, 12

three-pronged, and c bar-shaped. These sections are severed from eachother by transverse cuts at the points indicated by dotted lines inFig.1. Before or after severing, a

slot, d, is formed in each triangular section.

This may be conveniently done when cutting out the spoon-blanks. Theadjacent ends of the bars 0 are inserted in this slot and clinched inwell-known ways, as shown in the drawings, thus forming a barbed chaincapable of use for fencing or for other purposes.

The three-pronged sections 11 may be perforated and strung on wires forfencing in wellknown ways.

In Fig. 2 I have represented the alternate triangular sections a asprojecting in opposite directions, and the consecutive narrow strips 0as thrust through the apertures d from opposite sides; but boththesemethods, it is evident, may be varied.

In Fig. 3 I have shown a method of linking the separate parts by causingthe triangular pieces a to project all in the same direction, and withthe ends of the strips 0 at each section a folded upon the same side,but with the successive links alternating as regards that side. 1

Fig. 6 shows still another modification differing from that shown inFig. 3, in that the alternate strips care reversed to cause the adjacentcurved ends thereof to project in the same direction, either-downward orupward.

In Figs. 4, 5, and 6 I have shown a method of clasping the ends orcorners of the triangular sections or upon the folded ends of the strips0 to afford additional strength to the joint or link. This consists inbending the bythe dotted linef uponthesideof thelinked chain oppositethe ends 0, and in wrapping the pointed projection to in the oppositedirection and bringing its extremity across the bent portions of theends 0, as shown in Figs. 4 and 5. The extremities of the strips 0 maythen be folded across the end a, and likewise the corners a of thetriangular sections 01 may be bent over that portion of the projection.a which crosses the central portion of the strai gh t side of thesection; or the angular points a and 0 may be allowed to project outwardfrom the body of the chain at any required angle,

as shown in Fig. 5, and thus serve as barbs in the manner of theordinary barbed wire for fencing.

The method of folding the triangular sections may be varied as founddesirable, and only thefirst-mentioned 'fold may be employed, asillustrated in Fig. 6.

I do not broadly claim herein forming cables of sheet-metal scraps, asthat constitutes the subject-matter of another application filedsimultaneously herewith.

I claim as my invention 1. The combination, substantially ashereinbefore set forth, of a series of scraps formed by cuttingspoon-blanks from metal sheets, In testiinony whereof I have hereunt)subunited with each other by interlocking the scribed my name this 24thday of July, A. D. 10

same so as to form a continuous chain. 1.882.

2. The combination of the narrow metal strips and the triangularsections, interlocked JOHN MILLIGAN' with each other alternately,forming a chain Witnesses: with or Without barbs, substantially as here-JAMES OOOHRAN,

inbefore set forth. THEODORE A. PERHAM.

